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10 imperialism

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stronger nations attempt to control a weaker nation because of military, economic, political, or cultural superiority

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10 Platt Amendment

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provisions that the US insisted Cuba needed to add to its new constitution, commanding Cuba to stay out of debt & give the US the right to intervene in the country & right to buy/lease Cuban land for naval/fueling stations

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10 Boxer Rebellion

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members of the Chinese secret society sought to free their country from Western influence (Europe), thought they were invincible (martial arts) to get rid of foreigners but many died

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10 open door policy

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US aims to prevent foreign powers in china from shutting out the US from Chinese markets, open trade (gateway) with china by dividing it into different portions with each country

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10 Panama Canal

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waterway cut through Panama to provide shortcut between atlantic & Pacific, US built it & later gave to panama

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10 Roosevelt corollary

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extension to the monroe doctrine, US claimed right to protect its economic interests by means of military intervention in the affairs of Western Hemisphere nations
Europe stays on European side

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10 Spanish-american War

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Us wanted cuba, Cuba rebels against Spain (they lose) Us supported Cuba to get Cuba, US declares war on Spain bc they wanted the lands for US because spain owned them, US wins, treaty of paris is signed for agreement

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10 Theodore Roosevelt

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assassination of William McKinely -> vice pres. Roosevelt to become president (dont need to use violence to intimidate, panama canal)

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11 selective service act

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draft where if you were 18 years old and a male, you had to register for war. If they drew a date out of a bin everyday and it was your birthday, you had to go into war

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11 convoy system

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surrounded merchant ship with battle ships to get supplies to land

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11 western front

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series of trenches between france (allied power) and germany (central power)
Most fighting of WW1 was here

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11 Causes of WW1

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nationalism- devotion to culture
imperialism- control
militarism- armed forces
system of alliances- alliance

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12 Urban sprawl

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(automobiles) resulted in - unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions

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12 KKK

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secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy(superiority) in Southern states after the civil war

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13 Prohibition

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banning of alcohol

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13 speakeasies

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underground places where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally

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13 Scopes trial

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fight over evolution and role of science and religion in public schools and society
bio teach didnt want to teach fundamentalism-. got arrested-> fined-> had to teach fundamentalism

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13 fundamentalism

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couldnt teach evolution because of the source of science through the bible

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13 double standard

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granting greater sexual freedom to men than women

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13 F. Scott Fitzgerald

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coined the term “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920s.

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13 Charles Lindbergh

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small town pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight around the atlantic

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12 Sacco and Vanzetti

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italian immigrants and anarchists accused of robbery and murder & were executed without much evidence

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13 NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

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urged African Americans to protest racial violence

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13 Great migration

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large scale movement of African Americans from the south to the Northern cities because of job opportunities, paid more & more rights, less discrimination, more freedom

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14 direct relief
cash payments or food provided by the gov to the poor
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14 dust bowl
drought & severe winds over mid west | made farms useless
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14 Great depression effect on city dwellers and farmers
city dwellers- shantytowns, soup kitchens, bread lines | farmers- moved west bc of bankruptcy, no help, low prices
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14 Great depression
1929 to 1940, US economy was in severe decline & millions of Americans were unemployed
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14 Bonus Army
WW1 veterans & families were promised bonus for service protested for $ Hoover asked national guard to break them up by gassing them which looked bad on hoover
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14 buying on margin
paying a small % of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest
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14 election of 1932
democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeated republican Herbert Hoover (who had little chance of winning- doing too little for depression & wanted a new pres)
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14 Herbert Hoover
President who had his image shot down the toilet Pres during Great Depression Didn't help ppl when they asked for help
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14 farm problems
dust bowl - left land behind | depression - debt & low prices moved west
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15 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
federal corporation that harnessed water power to generate electricity and to help prevent disastrous floods in the Tennessee Valley
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15 Works Progress Administration (WPA)
agency (established by the Second New Deal) that provided unemployed with jobs as fast as possible
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15 Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which gov achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded - more $ for farmers (Aided farmers and regulated crop production)
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15 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in construction of schools and other community programs
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15 deficit spending
spending more money than the gov receives in revenue
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15 FDR
effective, reform-minded leader, working to combat the problems of unemployment and poverty Served 4 terms, got us out of Great Depression, popular
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15 New Deal
FDR's program to eliminate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, & financial reform
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16 4 totalitarian dictators
``` Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) Adolf Hitler (german) Benito Mussolini (italian) Francisco Franco (Spain) ```
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16 blitzkreig
lightning war, Germans military strategy (blitz)
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16 genocide
deliberate & systematic killing of an entire population
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16 non-aggression pact
agreement where 2 nations promise not to go to war with each other (Stalin & Hitler signed) Russia and Germany
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16 appeasement
giving up principles to keep peace, pacify/please an aggressor
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16 Holocaust
systematic murder of 11 million Jews and other groups in Europe by the Nazis before & during WW2
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16 Axis Powers
3 nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allies (US, Britain, Soviet Union) in WW2
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16 Pearl Harbor
Japanese bombs the largest US naval base in the Pacific destroying nearly the whole US pacific fleet in the surprise attack, which has great damage
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16 Munich pact
Britain & Frances eagerness to avoid war, signed this agreement which turned Sudentenland Czechoslovakia over to Hitler (Germany) without a shot being fired ALLOWED GERMANY TO TEMPORARILY OWN NEW LAND
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17 internment
confinement or a restriction in movement, especially under wartime conditions -Put Japanese Americans in confined areas
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17 Battle of Bulge
month long battle in WW2 where Allies succeed in turning back the last major German offensive war ! German tanks drove through allied lines
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17 D-day
(Operation Overlord) the day in which the Allies launched an invasion of the European (Germany) mainland during WW2 while parachuting down Allies succeed June 6, 1944
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17 V-E day
Victory in Europe day- surrender of the Nazi Germany marked the end of WW2 in Europe May 8, 1945
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17 Dwight D. Eisenhower
American General who commanded then invasion of the axis controlled north africa (operation torch) launched by churchill and roosevelt -> victory Led D day
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17 George Patton
US general who advanced his third army through the Germans weak line of defense and gained territory
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17 Douglas MacArthur
General who was in command of the allied forces on the Philippine islands and was ordered to leave, but returned to occupy Japan under US forces
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17 Harry Truman
pres roosevelt had a stoke & die -> vice pres Harry became the nations 33rd pres.
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11 League of Nations | who didnt join? why ?
association of nations established to promote international cooraperation and peace US & Russia, bc congress declares war, not president (didnt want to be dragged into war)
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11 Fourteen Points
principles making up pres. Woodrow Wilsons plan for world peace following WW1
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11 Big Four nations
US France Britain Italy
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12 strikes
boston police strike, steel mill strike working hours, raise, living wage work stoppage intended to force an employer to respond to demands
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12 radicals
member of a political party
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12 communism
economic/political system based on a single party gov ruled by dictatorship
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11 Franz Ferdinand
Austria Hungary prince who was assassinated by serbia nationalist - started WW1
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14 hoboes
Homeless people
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15 NRA
Gave direct relief to those who needed it
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Who forced the US into WW2
Japan

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